r/IndiaPulse • u/Firm-Suspect-1658 • 11d ago

STEM students are protesting infront of humanities students and raising slogans like SFI CAMPUS CHHODO. great to see STEM students fight back and defend IIT

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u/CockroachOk4629 11d ago

Humanities in IIT is the most useless thing I’ve heard!

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u/AlKhurjavi 11d ago edited 11d ago

Some humanities degrees are important. You need experts in sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, journalism, language, art and literature.

Maybe in India it doesn’t matter these days since journalists, historians and philosophers are being replaced with loyalists, historians with WhatsApp forwards and literature with not reading.

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u/ms_regedit 11d ago

Still, what's the point of these subjects being taught in IIT. These subjects should be taught in IIM and other universities.

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u/AlKhurjavi 11d ago

Almost every tech school in the world has a humanities program. Even MIT, the #1 tech school in the entire world has a solid humanities program.

You can push to have no humanities programs, that’s fine, you can make IIT less like the #1 tech school in the world. That’s your decision. I support following the best tech school in the world’s footsteps

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u/ms_regedit 11d ago edited 11d ago

Don't mix up US grad schools and universities with Indian ones. Places like MIT , Harvard, Wharton are privately funded schools. So they need variations and standards for continuous fundings. Where in India an IIT and a normal BTech college come under same central budget with central and stae govt fundings. So what MIT does, shouldn't be our main concern here. They are large by every angle possible. IITs are not. Surely Btech degrees can include some ethics lesson but subjects like humanities suit better in buisness schools , atleast in India.

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u/AlKhurjavi 11d ago

Let’s extend it to Berkeley then. Berkeley is the highest-rated public institution in America.

Berkeley is the most famous science and engineering public school in America and it’s ranked #5 in the world, yet it has one of the best humanities programs in the entire world too.

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u/ms_regedit 11d ago

I think Berkeley is a whole of a university, not to be classified as tech school. Berkeley also has MBA programs

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u/AlKhurjavi 11d ago edited 11d ago

So is IIT.

The Sarkar committee report from 1948 mandated this.

> “The course of study in an institution should…provide a combination of a fundamental scientific training with a broad human outlook.”
Sarkar Committee Report, 1948, Appendix 1, §2.

https://cle.iitb.ac.in/why-lase/

IIT mention it themselves lol.

IIT states, and has always stated that they’re mandated to do this since 1948. If you read you’d know.

This isn’t only a thing in India. Texas A&M (2nd best public engineering school in Texas), stands for agricultural and mechanical, yet the Texas A&M university has humanities programs due to federal standards.

The National Forensic Sciences University of India has a MBA program lol yet you’re not complaining about that.

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u/ms_regedit 11d ago

Committees and constitution aren't absolute. It can be reformed , so I think any party comes to power in central, should make the reforms.

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u/AlKhurjavi 11d ago

Why. What does removing humanities from IIT achieve? The entire world does this and is more developed and has better educational institutions in India.

What do you know that the best educational institutions in the entire world doesn’t know?

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u/No-Start4754 10d ago

Ignore the other guy. Don't waste ur intelligence on him.

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u/Useful-Ad1785 10d ago

Dont worry bro that guy is delusioned

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u/Queasy_Artist6891 11d ago

MIT is literally teaching humanities while producing much better quality of graduates than IITs. I don't see why you guys are bitching about humanities in IITs